FreedomWorks Teams Up With The Oil Industry For Astroturf Rallies

August 14, 2009 3:19 pm ET —
Chris Harris

Yesterday, it was revealed that the American Petroleum Institute asked oil companies to dispatch employees to "Energy Citizen" rallies to protest the American Clean Energy and Security Act. The very next day, the astroturfing experts at FreedomWorks issued a press release promoting the very same events. They're not even trying to hide it anymore.

Armey
& Oil: A Match Made In Money

They're not even trying to hide it anymore.

Yesterday, Kevin Grandia at DeSmog Blog wrote
about an internal memo from the American Petroleum Institute asking oil
companies to dispatch employees to "Energy
Citizen" rallies opposed to the American Clean Energy and Security Act.

**UPDATE:TPMmuckraker's Zack Roth writes: "API tells TPMmuckraker that the campaign is being funded by a coalition of corporate and conservative groups that includes the anti-health-care-reform group 60 Plus, FreedomWorks, and Grover Norquist's Americans For Tax Reform."